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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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California's Encrypted bring orchestral grandeur and cinematic sweep to symphonic metal, a genre-first project launched in 2024 with an ear for drama and scale. Still early in their trajectory, they're building something ambitious from the ground up.
On the warpath since 2015, this Stockholm Crust Punk, Death Metal, and Grindcore outfit delivers microsecond-length blasts of noise and fury. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Thrash metal act from Neukirchen beim Heiligen Blut in Bavaria, Germany, freshly formed in 2025. Their approach channels the classic thrash tradition with the energy and hunger of a new project.
Heavy/speed metal act from Odense, Denmark, delivering high-velocity, riff-driven metal since 2015. Their deliberately misspelled name adds a distinctive visual identity to their classic-sounding heavy and speed metal.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels black metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2024, based in London, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Rochester Hills, Michigan's End It deliver meat-and-potatoes thrash metal with the direct energy of a band that's never chased trends and never intended to. Since 2017, they've kept things fast, aggressive, and uncompromised.
New Bedford, Massachusetts' End It All cast a wide net across melodic death, thrash, and metalcore, blending the genres with a coastal aggression that feels rooted in the Northeast's hard-nosed DIY culture. Formed in 2017, they haven't picked a lane — and it works.
Louisville's End It with a Shotgun bring the brutal death metal tradition to the banks of the Ohio River — low, guttural, and punishing in the way only a band from Kentucky's hardest-working underground can be. Active since 2011, the name alone sets expectations.
Port Saint Lucie's End My Suffering emerge from Florida's oppressive heat and humidity into the depressive black metal void, channeling isolation and despair through raw, lo-fi atmosphere. A project born in 2025 with nothing to prove and everything to exorcise.
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